The New Jim Crow

By Michelle Alexander

Categories: Law

Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration in the United States works as a system of racial control, a new Jim Crow. First published in 2010, the book examines how the war on drugs and the criminal justice system have affected Black Americans. Alexander shows how people labeled criminals can face legal discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, voting rights and jury duty. This tenth-anniversary edition adds a new preface by the author.

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